[Mark Whitney]

Ya, it’s more of a “this is what I’m going to set the value to” rather than “this is the value now”.

[Mark Whitney]

I’d say just give it a try on a simple practice comp & project. Once you’ve gone through the process I doubt you’ll have much to worry about. You can’t change anything in the AE comp directly in Premiere; it would take you back to AE to make any changes that then get reflected as to what PPro would render. Hence the term Dynamic Link.

[Mark Whitney]

[Steve Bentley] “Just watching the video it looks like, after you change the easing with the MTM tool, and then you select they key frames again, the interface doesn’t tell you what the easing on those key frames is set to, only what the last easing you did was.
Is that true?”

Hey Steve,
I’m not quite sure what or rather where you mean. Do you mean in the Motion 2 UI or in one of AE’s panels? In the Motion UI, that’s sort of a hidden (or at least a briefly mentioned “feature”) in that you can copy last used settings to other keys. You do that by selecting the new key(s) and clicking on the icon on the left side of the Motion sliders.

If you happen to have the graph editor open though, as soon as you let up on the slider in Motion, it’s updated.

[Mark Whitney]

Are you doing this live? If so that adds a whole other element & don’t think AE is your solution as it’s not a real time tool.

Among other considerations, it really depends on what your 3D app considers as “Real World” dimensions. I’m not finding my notes at the moment but I seem to recall that the 3D program I prefer, Lightwave, 100 AE pixels equals 1 meter. LW has a tool as part of it’s feature set however to do data exchange between it & AE. Other, but not all 3D apps have something similar.

If your cameras are locked off, then it doesn’t matter; simply go by eyball. If not, then I’d take the footage into AE, use it’s tools to create a 3D camera, then export that data out to LW. That would give you camera movements & focal length. Use your footage as a background guide to line up your 3D object & it should lock & stay in place to the camera moves.

[Mark Whitney]

Hey Suzin,
In essence, what you’re wanting to do is use the Adobe Dynamic Link feature. There should be youtube videos available so try searching on that if you need more info, but this the simplest way I’ve found.

Let’s assume your AE comp is at the final stage & ready to render; you don’t even have to have AE open at this point. In Premiere Pro, you can have a blank project or the one you wish to bring the AE project into. Under the File Menu, select Adobe Dynamic Link, then Import After Effects Composition … Navigate to where your .aep project lives & select it. It might take a bit of time for the Dynamic Link Server to do it’s thing, but eventually you’ll be presented with a list on the right side of the window of the valid comps in the project. As such, I’d remove any superfluous comps first as that just adds time to process the list.

Select your comp & it’ll add that to the Project list & insert at the timelime marker. From there, you shouold be good to go as you would in PPro.

[Mark Whitney]

There ‘s a bit of that if I recall but I’ll have to experiment over the weekend & get back (about to head off to work & probably going to 2-3am). Might just be operator familiarity on my end.

I’ve written them a couple times & never heard back which is a negative of course. There’s also a couple things not working with the Help menu & links (nothing with the tools themselves that I’ve found).

[Mark Whitney]

Expanding on what Steve wrote, you might want to take a look at this vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsWTGlkiyfI

The script has many more tools but the main funtion is explained at the head end.

Some contents or functionalities here are not available due to your cookie preferences!

This happens because the functionality/content marked as “Google Youtube” uses cookies that you choosed to keep disabled. In order to view this content or use this functionality, please enable cookies: click here to open your cookie preferences.

[Mark Whitney]

Very strange. I just took a peak at an older project (using CS6, Win7 Pro) that when launched updated to Particular 2.6.0. The position settings are there just under the Light Naming option and above the Position Subframe.

As a diagnostic, try a fresh start of AE, A fresh new comp & new solid, Apply Particular and see if the problem persists.

[Mark Whitney]

You mean something like this?

https://aescripts.com/ae-global-renamer/

[Mark Whitney]

There’s also this if you’re needing a lot more control & options:

https://aescripts.com/bao-mask-brush/